What is it about?
This study has been undertaken to find as to how the Pakistan defense services being resource intensive organizations can help to secure the natural environment and achieve sustained national development by adopting modern management concepts like Balanced Score Card (BSC) while not compromising on their core aim of achieving strategic national defense objectives. With this main purpose in mind, study was focused on locating the core functionalities of Pakistan armed services to be adopted as the key perspectives for building their BSCs. This study is quantitative in nature and after the formulation of hypotheses by carrying out a thorough literature review collected quantitative data to test the hypotheses using computer based SPSS software. Personnel of all the three arms of Pakistan defense service; army, navy and the air force formed the population of this study. This quantitative study has found that pursuit of national purpose, availability of resources, internal processes and building for future are the main core functionalities of Pakistan defense services and can be safely adopted as the main perspectives for the development of their BSCs to ensure sustained national development by exercising economy of resources without overburdening the natural resources and the environment.
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Why is it important?
Big organizations like defense services are resource intensive and have an indirect effect on the sustainability of natural resources; Its therefore all the more important for the personnel of the armed services of all the nations to understand their role towards the global sustainability goals.
Perspectives
As an author I firmly believe that natural resources are not unlimited and the bigger consumers of natural resources like defense forces world over carry bigger responsibility to ensure the sustainable development. In this study an effort has been made to recognize the best available management methodology which would allow the defense forces to ensure much desired sustainability. The Balanced Scorecard therefore, emerges out to be one such management tool as an outcome of this study.
muhammad Arif
Institute of Business Management
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This page is a summary of: Sustainable management of national resources through implementation of balanced scorecard, Management of Environmental Quality An International Journal, June 2021, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/meq-12-2020-0294.
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